The Vintage Classic

Carried for over 100 years by the brave few on battlefields worldwide, worn at the side of countless law enforcement professionals and gracing the bed stands of innumerable citizens, the 1911 has come to symbolize the might of freedom’s march and its resilience against the tests of time. It has evolved, been remade and reimagined by countless manufacturers and is an ever-present testament to the superiority of design. Companies putting their “spin” on the timeless design pitch products touting “old meets new” as their exemplar and invent new words and phrases in attempts to set theirs apart from a vast field of competitor’s wares. Words and phrases. These are often all that is truly different between the excess of 1911 models offered in today’s market. Not true of the Cabot Guns family of pistols; their pedigree is that of the primeval 1911 envisioned by visionary John Moses Browning. In the case of Cabot’s Vintage Classic 1911, old hasn’t met new – new has instead stepped into a time machine, bringing modern technology and methodology to the most classic of designs.

Cabot always begins with solid blocks of steel. The frame and slide of the Vintage Classic are constructed of 416 Stainless Billet which is hailed for its superior properties. Cabot’s computer-controlled precision machining and build processes are invigilated by artisan craftsmen who ensure that each individual part is better-than-perfect in dimension and consistency. A proprietary hardening process coupled with an innovative thermal chemical treatment of the steel creates a durable yet warm finish that evokes the appearance of a well carried and much relied on sidearm. It is uniform in toughness, yet with a unique and varied patterning of perceived distressing on the highs and deepening of the lows. The pistol appears to glow from within, as if still warm from being carried at your side the whole day through.

Available in Government or Commander sizing, the beauty of the Vintage Classic is well more than skin deep. Within the Commander resides Cabot’s revolutionary Full-Cycle Technology – meaning it retains the same cycle-length and legendary reliability of its full-sized Government match. Both are hand-fitted with match-grade crown-cut flush-fit barrels. Atop either is incorporated further innovation – a spherical shaped gold bead front sight with or optional tritium vial fitted in Cabot’s Reverse Dovetail, eliminating potential snag points and maintaining true zero draw after draw. Interrupted only by a lowered and flared ejection port featuring a machined-in-place Perfect Fit Cabot Ejector, full-length front to rear slide-top serrations lead your eye to an optional black or tritium bar, low-mount fixed or adjustable rear sight. Completing the slide are Cabot’s renowned Trademark Trinity Stripes – providing the ultimate in tactile sureness when racking a round into battery. The shooter’s interface with the Vintage Classic is further buttressed by grip-ensuring 24 line-per-inch Rhombus checkering along both the front strap and main spring housing of the pistol. The beveled magazine well lends to faster magazine changes and feeds smoothly inside grips of checkered Turkish Walnut or white American Holly. A stand-out aluminum wire-EDM cut Tristar trigger compliments beavertail and thumb safeties, a one-piece full-length guide rod, slide stop and magazine release all billet-made to hair-splitting specifications.

The Vintage Classic is Cabot’s ode to the original – a mechanized poem to be sung and enjoyed by shooters the world over. As the best of all worlds, the Vintage Classic represents a return to tradition through the employment of the cutting-edge. Summed up, the Vintage Classic is the simplicity of precision implemented cleanly and without peer.

Recent Comments

"I've been in this business for a long time and I've never seen a gun company come this far this fast. The Cabot 1911 is the only pistol with the quality of a Rolls Royce and the accuracy of an atomic clock. I had always considered Korth from Germany the reigning champion for producing the world’s finest revolvers and pistols, so it was nice for me leaving Denver knowing that a U.S. company had dethroned the Germans fair and square. "

— S.P. Fjestad,Author, Editor & Publisher, Blue Book of Gun Values.

"The gun is just outstanding. At the gun shop where I picked it up people lined up to hold it, touch it and look at it. Get this, they took pictures of people holding it for about an hour and a half. I couldn’t get out of the damn gun shop. It was amazing, everyone was just in awe. It was everything I anticipated and a lot more."

— Al Scofield

"The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world"

Precision Design

Yes. We offer the world’s first aerospace quality 1911 style pistol. Cabot 1911′s are not just another pistol. Never ever. We’ve been living this creation for years. Cabot 1911’s have set a new standard in precision tolerances and quality not seen before in the gun world.
And, we dare say, a perfect fit. Cabot pistols with Clone Technology have a total frame and slide that are manufactured to fit more accurately than can be done by the human hand. In fact, the tightness is a fraction of a human hair. This is our own long-earned and long-invested proprietary technology.

Precision Craftmanship

With attitude and pedigree. That’s how we approached the manufacture of our 1911 guns along with a refusal to settle for anything less than the best of both. Specifically, we challenged America’s top engineers, machinists and master craftsmen to build the perfect precision handgun from scratch without compromise and what resulted is a superior collection of 1911 pistols made from only the finest of materials, technology and minds that this great country has to offer.

Precision Performance

Shooting a Cabot Pistol, Brian "Gunny" Zins wins the 2012 NRA National Pistol Championship in the first year a Cabot Gun debuts at the competition. And then repeated again in 2013 In 2017 Cabot shooter Jon Shue won the NRA National Pistol Championship. In over 100-years of competition only two civilian have taken first place overall; and both did it shooting a Cabot pistol.
It’s simple. Every one of our 1911 pistols exceed national match standards right “out of the box.” Less simple is what that took to achieve: When the all-time greatest bullseye pistol marksmen pick up a gun to shoot it's a Cabot.